My Goal: Too much prejudice in this world - and not just racial. Religious and especially political prejudice is more prevalent and more harmful. The blogosphere has added to that and I want to subtract from it.

Here's some of my life and the things I'm interested in. You can find more info in my Permanent File. Click on the Categories under Blog Index to the Right.

Monday, December 21, 2009

For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but uponthe tenth day Achilles called them in assembly--moved thereto byJuno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and hadcompassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he roseand spoke among them.

"Son of Atreus," said he, "I deem that we should now turn rovinghome if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down bywar and pestilence at once. Let us ask some priest or prophet, orsome reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tellus why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for somevow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered,and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats withoutblemish, so as to take away the plague from us."

Continued next week. Tomorrow's installment from Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

More About This Book

From the earliest days of Ancient Greece, the author(s) of this poem were contemporaries of the writers of the Bible's Old Testament.

Summary of First Book: The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles--Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans--Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.